BOSTON—Blanchette Press is the big Canadian winner with five awards in the 14th Sappi North American Printers of the Year Competition.

Blanchette Press in Richmond, B.C. earned a silver in the general and magazines-sheet categories along with bronzes in brochures, annual reports, and promotion.

Other multiple-award winners from Canada are Hemlock Printers based in Burnaby, B.C. with a silver in calendars and digital, along with a bronze in catalogues. Somerset Graphics in Mississauga, Ont. won a silver award in the magazines-sheet category and a bronze in the same category, and C.J. Graphics in Etobicoke, Ont. won a silver and bronze in brochures.

Other Canadian printers winning a silver include Custom Printers in the annual reports category and Quatro Card Technology for catalogs. St. Joseph Communications won a bronze in the magazines-web category.

The silver and bronze award recipients in each category were chosen from a field of more than 2,100 entries, according to Sappi. The silver award recipients are now eligible to win a gold award (to be announced June 7) and up to $20,000 to support marketing initiatives, and a chance to compete in the 2012 International Printers of the Year Award.